Lisa Einstein

About

Lisa Einstein is a technologist dedicated to promoting opportunities and addressing risks associated with AI in safety-critical settings. As the first Chief AI Officer at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), she led the agency's efforts to advance secure and resilient AI adoption and mitigate AI-related threats to critical infrastructure. This work earned her CISA's highest award for leadership. She previously served as CISA's Senior Advisor for AI and Executive Director of its Cybersecurity Advisory Committee.

In a prior role at the Hoover Institution, Einstein led H.R. McMaster’s emerging technology research team and served as Deputy Lead of the Hoover Afghanistan Relief Team. Einstein advises AI cybersecurity research at the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory. Her past research includes designing an algorithmic support tool for humanitarian evacuations and co-developing the first speech recognition models for three West African languages.

She teaches AI security and governance to audiences ranging from senior executives to global government leaders, and helped organize a free virtual class that taught Stanford's introductory coding curriculum to 22,000 students from 148 countries.As a Peace Corps Volunteer, Einstein taught physics to more than 600 students in rural Guinea. She holds a BA in physics and dance from Princeton University and master's degrees in computer science and international cyber policy from Stanford University.